Phosphorus, vital in maintaining optimum animal health, is commonly overlooked by New Zealand farmers, though they display good understanding of the benefits of mineral and vitamin supplementation.

Grazed winter forage crops raise the risk of nutrient losses to water, but with careful management, sediment and phosphorus losses can be reduced during grazing.

French dairy processor Danone is still feeling the after-effects of Fonterra’s false botulism scare in the Chinese market.

A Chinese e-commerce giant has bought a A$20 million stake in a new unit trust launched by Australia’s largest dairy company.

Leasing teaser bulls to farmers has earned Waikato dairy farmer Jennie Macky the best agri-businesswoman of the year title.

What the world needs now is a lot less milk.  The short-term outlook is grim. 

The most surprising factor, when entering Mark and Michelle Bocock’s calf shed, isn’t the number of calves but the silence.  There isn’t a sound.

Anybody watching international dairy markets knows it’s a bad time to try to move product.

One big push could see the Trans Pacific Partnership deal through, says trade expert Stephen Jacobi.

The former head of the Fonterra Shareholders Council, Ian Brown, has dismissed claims about the relevance of the council.